June sales have been released, and the top 10 for the month got all kinds of shaken up!

The Top 10

Rank

Comic-book Title

Issue

Price

Publisher

Est. sales

1

Batman

32

$3.99

DC

130,077

2

Amazing Spider-Man

3

$3.99

Marvel

109,029

3

Original Sin

3

$3.99

Marvel

93,351

4

Harley Quinn

7

$2.99

DC

93,266

5

Superman

32

$3.99

DC

89,140

6

Original Sin

4

$3.99

Marvel

88,508

7

Amazing Spider-Man

1.2

$3.99

Marvel

86,315

8

Justice League

31

$3.99

DC

75,803

9

Walking Dead

128

$2.99

Image

74,326

10

Detective Comics

32

$3.99

DC

72,988

For the first time since March, DC took the number-one spot, with “Batman #32”, buoyed by the end of the “Zero Year” storyline, outselling “Amazing Spider-Man #3” by over 20,000 copies. Even more surprising is Harley Quinn landing at number four overall. It’s reliably been one of DC’s top selling books, but it picked up over 30K in sales from last month and bested an issue of Marvel’s Original Sin in the process!

And DC still isn’t done celebrating. The new creative team of Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr. helped land “Superman #32” into the top 5 for the month, increasing sales by almost 50K and easily doubling what the previously issue sold. That number is likely to drop in future months in the absence of curious looky-loos, but DC has got to be happy with those numbers. Detective Comics also picked up another 20K in sales and a place in the top 10, and combined with perennial top 10 title Justice League, DC accounts for half the overall top 10 and nearly half a million in sales.

Marvel didn’t go home entirely empty handed: it still placed four books in the top 10 (albeit two Original Sin issues and two Spidey-titles), and they still won market share for the month, both in terms of overall units sold (35.68% to 33.20%) and overall dollars (33.71% to 29.88%).

Walking Dead, per usual, was the lone independent within the top 10 and Image’s sole representative there, but it did continue its quiet uptick, picking up 3K in sales from the previous issue.

Other Notables

As reported, “Big Trouble in Little China #1” debuted big for Boom! Studios, with just over 24,000 in sales, almost doubling the previous Boom! top seller, Adventure Time. That number won’t hold in future issues, but even with attrition, it looks like Boom! has a new contender for its best-selling book.

Woods, meanwhile, fell back beneath Adventure Time with its second issue but was still good for the three spot overall at Boom!.

The final issue of Serenity: Leaves on the Wind was consistent with previous issues and Dark Horse’s #1 book overall, just under 15K better than its next highest-selling title (Star Wars). Dark Horse presumably can’t get another Serenity series going fast enough, especially with the looming loss of the Star Wars license at the end of the year.

The four issues of Batman Eternal released in June dropped slightly, but each issue still consistently hovered around 60K.

New 52: Futures End, meanwhile, dropped more sharply, closer to 45K per issue (down from 59K last month), with sales for each subsequent issue descreasing.

All together, the various Batman titles and related series (not counting team-up books or things like Justice League) accounted for over 812,000 issues sold last month.

New Vampirella debuted for Dynamite with 22,864 copies sold.

Both My Little Pony books from IDW were down slightly this month.

Outcast, a new horror series by Robert Kirkman, debuted strong, with 71,788 issues sold, second at Image only to Kirkman’s Walking Dead (and by only about 3K), good for a spot just outside the overall top 10. Clearly, Kirkman’s name is enough to move the needle, especially on a horror book. If the drop off to issue #2 isn’t too steep (losing 10K would still keep it ahead of Saga), Image could have a new top seller and a challenger for the overall top 10 on its hands.

The critically well-received Wicked + the Divine debuted with almost 43K in sales, good for number four at Image and over 15 K better than the number-five book (“Sex Criminals #6,” returning after a break to 26,309 in sales, up just under 5K from number five). Even with second issue attrition, the series should be a consistent top 10 book for the company.

Warren Ellis’s Trees held steady, losing only about 6K in sales from issue #1 to issue #2.

Marvel shipped only one issue of Avengers in June, and at just under 54,000, it sold less than either of the issues shipped in May.

All New X-Men remained Marvel’s best-selling non-Spider-Man, non-Original Sin book. Guardians of the Galaxy was the second best such title, thanks to the Avengers drop; its sales between May and June were steady.